The original article certainly wasn't intended as flame-bait. It was just a description of an situation that some of my friends (and former colleagues) have found themselves in. It seemed to me that it nicely illustrated an opinion that I'm hearing more and more frequently.

I checked in on the Slashdot discussion when it was a couple of hours old and it seemed that the level of debate was higher than I usually see there. I assume it later dropped to more predictable levels :-)

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In reply to Re: Slashdot on Perl by davorg
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